January 08, 2025 France
Nokia has completed the sale of its subsea cable unit, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), to the French State and said the transaction has netted it around €350 million ($363m). Nokia noted that it retains a 20 percent shareholding in ASN, with board representation, to "ensure a smooth transition...
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November 21, 2024 France
France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde, and TV5 Monde have partnered with Thésée Datacenter to assist with their transition to cloud solutions.The migration aims to make the media companies more resilient against the risks of cyber attacks, reduce the environmental impact of...
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November 04, 2024 France
French energy equipment giant Schneider Electric, a significant supplier of the data center industry has removed CEO Peter Herweck and has appointed long-time employee Olivier Blum as the new chief executive, effective immediately. Schneider said that its Board of Directors "decided to remove...
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October 11, 2024 France
Atos-owned Eviden has partnered with IQM to install a quantum computer in France which will be housed at Eviden’s flagship factory in Angers, with both physical and remote access to be made available to users, the latter via an Eviden private cloud. IQM Spark is a 5-qubit superconducting quantum...
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August 28, 2024 France
Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses. Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and cloud...
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July 09, 2024 France
Swedish satellite communications firm Ovzon has launched services from its debut geostationary (GEO) broadband satellite. “Ovzon’s proprietary satellite Ovzon 3 has reached its orbital position in the geostationary arc,” the company said recently. “After a few weeks of final in-orbit testing, the...
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July 05, 2024 France
Energy company TotalEnergies has unveiled the latest generation of its Pangea supercomputer, housed at the Jean Féger Scientific and Technical Center at Pau in southwest France. The Pangea 4 system is smaller and more energy efficient than the Pangea II, using 87 percent less electricity than its...
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July 02, 2024 France
French billionaire Xavier Niel has submitted a bid for Latin American telecoms group Millicom that values the carrier at $4.1 billion through his investment vehicle, Atlas Investissement.In a statement, Atlas said that its offer will ensure the company can expand its reach. "The purpose of the...
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June 27, 2024 France
Telecoms OEM Nokia announced today that it has entered an agreement to sell Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to the French State, represented by the Agence des Participations de l'Etat (APE) in a deal which is expected to close at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025.Alain Biston, president...
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June 12, 2024 France
France's nuclear waste agency, Andra, has cut down its energy usage and cooling costs by as much as 20 percent through the switch by moving from old HPE equipment to Pure Storage hardware.According to Olivier Tardy, head of infrastructure operations in the department of the CIO at Andra, the...
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June 01, 2024 France
French telco group Iliad has revealed plans to invest billions of Euros into its OpCore data center unit as it aims to expand that business unit over the next decade. The company plans to invest €2.5 billion in organic developments, supported by Iliad and a future financial partner and has also...
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May 27, 2024 France
NcodiN, a French optical interposer startup, has closed a €3.5 million ($3.8m) funding round, with Elaia, Earlybird, and OVNI Capita amongst the investors as the company looks to improve chiplet-to-chiplet communications with optical interposer technology.The company said the technology will...
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March 16, 2024 Verne Global
Investment firm Ardian this week said it had completed the acquisition of European data center firm Verne from UK infrastructure firm Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9). The company will support the expansion of Verne with up to $1.2bn committed investment through equity and debt to “deliver an...
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January 08, 2024 France
New French operator Phocea DC has raised €5 million to develop a new data center in Marseille from French venture firm Reflexion Capital. The planned facility will span 1,700 square meters and offer around 1.2MW with a PUE of 1.2. It will also feature two meet-me rooms, will look to reuse waste...
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December 22, 2023 France
Iliad Group has secured a €300 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to use in supporting its 5G network expansion in France. This marks the seventh loan issued to the telco by the EIB since 2009. Thomas Reynaud, CEO of the Iliad Group, said, “This financing transaction – the...
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December 01, 2023 Verne Global
UK and Nordic provider Verne Global has added liquid cooling to its underground Finnish data center campus in conjunction with Dell and Intel. Verne is now offering direct liquid cooling (DLC) for systems installed in the Rock data center, which occupies ex-military tunnels in the bedrock at...
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November 28, 2023 Verne Global
French private equity firm Ardian just purchased data center company Verne Global from Digital 9 Infrastructure. D9 bought Verne for $320 million in 2021 and has since then acquired and merged Finnish data center firm Ficolo and London’s Volta Data Centres into the Verne brand. However, D9 had...
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November 13, 2023 France
Liberty Latin America (LLA) recently agreed to sell about 1,300 telecom towers to Phoenix Tower International (PTI) for $407 million. Tower sites to be monetized in this transaction include towers in locations across Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Barbados, and the British Virgin...
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October 27, 2023 Azur Datacenter
Swiss data center firm Green announced this week that construction on data centers N and O has commenced on the Metro-Campus Zurich in Dielsdorf. Combined, new 11,600 square meter facilities will offer 35MW and accommodate about 4,000 racks. Roger Süess, CEO of Green, said, “Our growth reflects...
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October 04, 2023 France
France's competition authority raided Nvidia's French offices on September 27, 2023, as part of a general inquiry of French antitrust authorities into the cloud computing sector. According to the Wall Street Journal, which first broke the news, the Autorité de la concurrence only said the...
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